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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-06-04
JESS.
by H.RIpER HAGeARp.
Futh0rot 'Nas SoloneoEsgres 5kSEle.

"Excuse me one minute,D she said, and
made as though to enter the house.
"Wacht cen beeche" wait bit), he eiacu.
and even catching hold of her white dress
with his big hand.
She drew the dress from him with O quick
twist Of her 1.-the form, and turned and faced
him
that could not be called encouraging; "you
were going to say something"
"Yes-ah, that isl was going to say"
and he paused.
Bessie stood with polite look of expecta-
tion on her face, and waited.
II was going to say-that, in short, that
want to marry your
"Oh!' said Bessie, with start.
Listen" he went on, hoarsely, his words
gathering force as he proceeded, as is the way
even with uncultured people when they speak
from the heart. "Listeni love you, Bessie;
/ have loved you for three years. Every
time have seen you have loved you more.
Don't say me nay-you don't know how
love you. / dream of you every night; some
times dream that hear your dress rustling,
and then you come and kiss me, and it is like
being in heaven"
Here Bessie made gesture Of disgust.
"There, / have offended you, but don't be
angry with me. l am very rich, Bessie;
there is the place here, and then have four
farms in Lydenburg and 10, 900 morgen up in
Waterberg, and 1000 head of cattle, besides
sheep and horses and money in the bank.
You shall have everything your own way.
he went on, seeing that the inventory of his
goods did not appear to impress her-"every-
thing-the house shall be English fashion;
will build a new sit-kame Sitting room, and
it shall be furnished from Natal There,
love you, / say. You won't say no, will
your and he caught her by the hand.
II am very much obliged to you, Mr.. Null
ler," answered Bessie, snatching away her
hand; "but-in short, / cannot marry you.
No, it is no use, cannot, indeed. There,
please say no more here comes my uncle.
Forget all about it, Mr.. Muller"
Her suitor looked up; there was old Silas
Croft coming, sure enough, but he was some
way of and walking slowly
ado you mean it!" he said beneath his
breath.
"Yes, yes, of course mean it. Why do
you force me TO repeat itp
at Is that d-d rooibaatje," he broke out
"You used not to be like this before. Curse
him, the white livered Englishmanl / will
be even with him yet and / tell you what it
is, Bessie; you shall marry me whether you
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al did not say that never said that.
do not think that happiness Is possible. It is
possible If one can love somebody 30 hard
that one can quite forget ones self and every
thing else except that person, and 1t is pos
sible if one can sacrifice ones self for others.
There is no true happiness outside OF love and
self sacrifice, or rather outside of love, for it
includes the other. That is gold, all tho rest
is gilt"
allow do you know thatau he asked quickly.
aYou have never been in love-"
aNo.n she answered, II have never been in
love like that, but all the happiness l have
had in my life has come to me from loving.
believe that love is the secret of the world |:
it Is like the philosophers stone they used to
look for, and almost as hard to find, but when
one finds ii it turns everything TO gold Per-
baps,n she went ON with little laugh, when
the angels left the earth they left US love be-
hind that by it and through it we may climb
up to them again. 1t is the one thing that
lifts us above the brutes. Without love man
is brute, and nothing but brute; with love
he draws near to God When everything else
falls away the love will endure because it can
not die while there is any ife if it is true love,
for it is immortal. Only it must be true
YOU see, it must be true"
ice of her manner broke up beneath the
warmth of her words, and her usually i'm
passive face had caught the life and light
from the eyes above and acquired a certain
beauty of its own He looked at it, and
realized something of the untaught and ILL.,
regulated intensity and depth of the nature Of
this curious girl. He caught her eyes and
they moved him strangely, though he was not
an emotional man, and was too old to expert
ence spasmodic thrills at the chance glances
of a pretty woman He went toward her,
looking at her curiously.
at would be worth living to be loved like
that" !" he said, more to himself than to her.
She did not answer, but she let her eyes rest
on his Indeed, she did more, for she put all
her soul into them and gazed and gazed till
John Mel felt as though he were being mes
merized And as she did so there rose up in
her breast knowledge that if she willed it
she could gain this mans heart and hold it
against all the world, for her nattru was
stronger than his nature. and her mind, un-
trained as it was, encompassed his mind and
could pass over it and beat it down as the
wind beats down tossing sea. All this she
learned in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye; she did not know how she knew it, but
she did know it as surely as she knew that the
blue sky stretched overhead, and what is
more, he-for the moment, at any rate-knew
it too It came on her as a shock and reve-
lation, like the tidings of a great joy or grief,
and for moment left her heart empty of all
things else.
She dropped her eyessuddenly.
II think" she said, quietly, ''that we have
been talking a great deal of nonsense, and
that want TO finish my sketch"
fro BE CONTINUED
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CHAPTER VI.


"Do you know you are a very odd person.
Miss Jess,n John said presently with little
laugh. II don't think you can have happy
mind"
She looked up. "A happy mindr she said.
"Who can have happy mindi Nobody who
can feel. Supposing," she went on after a
pause-"supposing one puts ones self and
ones own little interests and joys and sorrows
quite away, how is it possible to be happy
when one feels the breath of human misery
beating on ones face and sees the great tide
of sorrow and suffering creeping up to ones
feetl One may be on a rock ones self and
out of the path Of it till the spring floods or
the hurricane wave comes to sweep one away,
or one may be afioat upon it, whichever it is,
it is quite impossible, if one has any heart, to
be Indifferent to it."
"Then only the Indifferent are happyP
eyes, the indifferent and the selfish; but,
after all, it is the same thing; indifference is
the perfection of selfshness."
u am afraid that there must be lots Of
selfishness in the world, for there Is certainly
plenty OF happiness, all evil things notwith-
standing. / should have said that happiness
comes from goodness and from a sound diges-
ton"
jess shook her head as she answered, " may
feels can be quite happy in world Of sick
ness, suffering, slaughter and death. saw 9
Kaffir woman die yesterday and her children
crying over her. She was a poor creature
and had a rough lot, but she loved her life
and her children loved her. Who can be
happy and thank God for his creation when
he has just seen such a thingl But there.
Capt. Mel, my ideas are very crude and l
dare say very wrong, and everybody has
thought them before; at any rate, am not
going to infiict them on you. What is the
use of ita" she went on, with laugh; "what
is the use of anythinga The same old thoughts
passing through the same human minds from
year to year and century to century, just as
the same clouds float across the same blue
sky. The clouds are born in the sky and the
thoughts are born in the brain, and they both
end in tears and rearise in binding, bewilder-
ing mist, and this is the beginning and end of
thoughts and clouds. They arise out of the
blue; they overshadow and break into storms
and tears, and then they are drawn up with
the blue again and the whole thing begins
afresh."
$50 you don't think that one can be happy
In the worldf he asked.
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like It or no. Look here, do you think am
the sort of man to play With You go to
Wakkerstroom and ask what sort of a man
Frank Muller Is. See, / want you'll must
have YOU could not live If thought that
I should never get you for myself. And l
tell you will do it. don't care if it costs
my life and your rooibaatje's, too. I'll do 1t
IL have to stir up a revolt against the gov
ernment. There, I swear it by God or by the
devil, it's all one to mep And growing inar-
ticulate with passion, he stood there before
her clinching and unclinching his great hand,
and his lips trembling.
Bessie was very frightened; but she was
brave woman, and rose to the occasion.
@If you go on talking like that" she said,
Al shall call my uncle tell you that l will
not marry you, Frank Muller, and that moth
ing shall ever make me marry you. am
very sorry for you, but have not encouraged
you, and will never marry you-neverr
He stood for half minute or so looking at
her, and then burst into q savage laugh.
II think that some day or other l shall find
a way to make you" he said, and, turning,
went without another word
A couple of minutes later Bessie heard the
sound Of horse galloping, and looking up
saw her wooer's powerful form vanishing
down the vista OF blue gums Also she heard
somebody crying out as though in pain at
the back of the house. and, more to relieve
her mind than anything else, went to see
what it was. By the stable door she found
the Hottentot Jantje, twisting round and
round and shriexing and cursing, holding his
hand to his side, from which the blood was
running
"What is It'll" she asked.
"Baas Frank" he said-"Baas Frank hit
me with his whip!"
"The brutel" said Bessie, the tears starting
into her eyes with anger
"Never mind, missile, never mind" said the
Hottentot, his ugly face growing livid with
fury, "it Is only one more to me- cut 1t on
this stick"-and he held up long, thick
stick he carried, on which were several
notches, starting from three deep ones at the
top Just below the knob. "Let him look out
sharp-let him search the grass-let him
creep round the bush-let him look as he
will, one day he will find Jantje, and Jantje
will find him"
"Why did Frank Muller gallop away like
thatl" asked her uncle of Bessie when she got
back to the veranda.
"We had some words, "sheanswered, shortly,
not seeing the use of explaining matters to the
old tnan
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evident JnaJ s2e nad not neard him, Tor she
was asleep. Her hat was off but the b,lsli
shaded her, and her head had fallen forward
over her sketching block and rested on he's
hand. A ray Of light that came through the
bush played upon her curling brown hair and
threw warm shadows on her white face and
the white wrist and hand on which it rested.
John stood opposite to her and looked at
her, and the old curiosity to understand this
feminine enigma took possession of him
Many man before him has been the victim
of like DESIRE and lived 10 regret that he
did not leave it ungratifed. 1t is not well to
try to lift the curtain of the unseen; it Is not
well to call to heaven to show its glory, or to
hell to give us touch and knowledge of its
yawning fires. knowledge comes soon
enough; many Of US will say that
knowledge has come too soon, and left
us desolate. There is no bitterness like
the bitterness of wisdom; SO cried the
great Koholeth, and SO hath cried many a
son of man following blindly in his path. Let
us be thankful for the dark places of the
earth--places where we may find rest and
shadow, and the heavy sweetness of the night.
Seek not after mysteries, o son of man;
be content with the practical and the proved
and the broad light of the day; peep not, NUT
her who would be understood and is compre-
hensible to those who run, and for the others
let them be, lest your fate should
be as the fate of Eve, and as the
fate of Lucifer, star Of the morning For
here and there is human heart from which
1t is not wise to draw the veil-a heart in
which many things slumber as undreamed
dreams in the brain of the sleeper. Draw
not the veil, whisper not the word Of life in
the silence where all things sleep, lest in that
kindling breath Of love and pain dim shapes
arise, take form, and fright thee.
minute or SO might have been passed
when suddenly, and with q little start, jess
opened her great eyes, on which the shadow
Of darkness lay, and gazed at him.
"Ohl" she said, with little tremor, @is it
you or is it my dreamr
@Don't be afraid,r he answered, cheerily
"it is lin the flesh"
She covered her face with her hand for q
moment, and then Withdrew it, and he noticed
that her eyes had changed curiously in that
moment. They were still large and beautiful
as they always were, but there was change.
Just now they had seemed as though her soul
were looking through them. Doubtless il
was because the pupils were enlarged by
sleep.
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San Diego is made lively by gang Of
burglars.
Bartlett Springs, Cal, was sold Thursday
at auction.
The reported sale of Rattlesnake Island
is canard.
Cattle in California are being moved into
the mountains.
Green fruit is causing considerable sick
ness in the interior of Cal.
Sacramento's school census shows an in
crease OF 500 over last year.
Large purchases of wool are being made
by the wsolen mills at Santa Rosa.
Louis Basar, Pete Olsen's supposed ac
complice. is being examined at Napa.
A rich deposit of chrome iron has been
discovered on a ranch near Guerneville.
Indians are taking interest in truck patch
farming on the Pyramid Lake Reservation.
The heat was SO intense in Paso Robles
last Saturday that candles. in domestic use
in ordinary candlesticks, were melted simply
from the heat
The shipments Of quicksilver from Calls
toga to San Francisco in the month OF May
were larger than usual and amounted to
about $4,000 pounds.
! Mrs. Herman Teller shot her husband
dead at Cheney, w. T., Wednesday. She
claims that he threatened to kill her and
she acted in self-defense.
| The customary June floods in the Colum-
bia and Snake rivers are tearing down
bridges, sweeping away railway road beds
and inundating the surrounding country.
High water in the Idaho rivers is creating
considerable damage. A part of Lewiston
is under water and the meadow lands at
Mission are overHowed. The Spokane is
higher than known for years.
| The building of a branch line Of the
Northern Pacific through the Puyallup In.
dian Reservation has been checked by the
refusal of the Indian agent to allow the
passage of the road through the grounds.
Extensive lodges of gold quartz have been
discovered in Nicola, thirty miles from the
Canadion Pacific Railway. The ledges are
large in width and extend for several miles
Great excitement prevails, and many claim.
are already taken up.
A young woman who bleaches her hail
white and represents herself to be as aged
as her hair would naturally denote, has been
imposing upon the charitably disposed peo
pie oil Los Angeles. She OBTAINS money
and spends it for drink.
! Pete Martinelo, the well.known butcher
of Fort Huachuca and Tombstone. wa:
hanged by despersdoes in the mountains
between Arizona and New Mexico, He had
been summoned to appear against some
| well known cattle thieves, and the latter, i
is supposed, were afraid of his evidence.
Hog cholera is epidemic in San Diego
county and the butchers have ceased killing
pork altogether. The hogs are dying of 81
fast that il is almost impossible to bur,
them. One wholesale hrm in San Diego re
ports loss of about $2.o from the raya
ges of the disease, and another firm los
of abou, 81 900. The retail dealers have
nearly all quit the sale of domestic pork en-
tirely, and will keep nothing but the i'm
ported article until the disease is stamped
out.
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"Never mind, she answered, in quiet sort
Of way that excited his curiosity more than
ever; dreams are foolishness."
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"An, indeed, indeed. Well, be careful, my
love. It's i'll to quarrel with a man like
Frank Muller. I've known him for many
years, and he has black heart when he is
crossed. You see, my love, you can deal
with Boer and you can deal with an Eng
lishman, but cross bred dogs are bad to
handle. Take my advice and make it up
with Frank Muller"
All of which sage advice did not tend to
raise Bessie's spirits, which were already suf-
fcientlY low.
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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

AT last it has been solved-the
mystery of ice-cream poisoning. A
physician, who also processes a
knowledge of chemistry and of cleo
tricity, says that electricity is at the
bottom of all the trouble. He
claims to have discovered that the
rapid revolutions of the zinc pad
dies used in the ordinary lce-cream
freezer generates electricity, and
that the zinc is dissolved and dis
seminated through the cream. Now
will he tell rs how so much ice
cream which has never seen zinc
paddle freezer happens to be pois-
onous
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

SPEAKER CARLISLE and Mr.. Ran
dali have had several interviews and
now, it is said, understand each
other on the tariff question better
than Morrison and Randall ever
did. The Speaker declares in the
most confident tone that the Demo
Gratis of the House will pass a bill
providing for reduction of both
internal and import duties, and
that the measure will have the sup
port of every Democrat in Congress.
Whatever may be attempted in the
line of revenue reduction will not
claim the attention of the House
earlier than the first of next Febru-
airy.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

FoR eighty years the payment OF
what are known as the French spoil
alton claims has been deferred By
Congress. and most of these veneer
able yet undiscredited demands
have long since passed into the pos
session of spectators in long
chances. The resolution adopted
in the House of Representatives
yesterday with regard to a number
of these claims which have already
been favorably adjudicated in the
Court of Claims gives a reasonable
assurance that the beginning of the
end of delay in settling these histor-
ical accounts has come.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20
TUESDAY, JANUARY The 10Th, 1898,
228 Acres,

more or less, and more particularly de-
scribed in said mortgage. together with
the improvements thereon, now occupied
by the said Boone
The property is well located. between
the public road aud the A. d B. S. L..
Railroad, and within twelve miles of Bati-
more city by either road; it is near an ex-
cellent landing on the MagotHy river, and
adioins the lands of J.. Tydings, Henry
Tydings, Percy Wilt ms. Robt. Chard
and others. The farm is under good
fencing and is improved by the necessary
barns and outJuildings There is an ex
cellent peach orchard on the place in full
bearing. The soil is admirably adapted
to the production of fruit, vegetables and
the staple crops
TERMS OF SALE:-One.third pur-
chase money in cash upon day of sale or
the final ratification thereof; the residue
in two equal instalments at twelve and
eighteen months, respectively from the
day of sale, the whole to bear interest
from the day of sale and to be secured by
the bonds of the purchaser, with satisfac-
tory securities.
J. WRIT RANDALL,
10 ITS TG.1 Attorney, &c.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

. THE Federation of Labor, which
has just closed its session in Balti-
timore, have exhibited sensible
spirit in their proceedings. 1t has
avoided an attitude of antagonism
or exclusiyeness to. which there are
many temptations, but which could
not fail to injure the organization.
For example, ali attempt to limit
representation in the Federation to
trades unions was voted down, and
an effort to discriminate between
Skilled and unskilled labor was sim.
ilsrly disposed of. The members
Of the convention had before as
atfwaming the example of the
Knights of Labor, whose recent ex-
perienees have been anything but
encouraging.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

WALTER l. KILToN, who has
been confined in the Baltimore city
jail for a feloneous assault on Miss
Powell, of Va, whom be accom-
panied to one of the Parks in that
city on July 4th last, and was tried
in October, the jury failing to agree
upon verdict, has been released
from Jail, the case having been nolle
pressed by the States Attorney
Kilton left the city for Philadelphia,
yesterday and will make his way
to his home in Cherryville, Me-
Six months in Jail is the price paid
for Miss Powell's virtue aud all the
distress of mind and body of an
aged father, by william in the dis
guise of a friend--whose punishment
was deserving of the severest penal
ty of the law. How many scound
rels of less provoked assaults than
that of Miss Powells have met JUS
tice ut the end of u rope by an in
dignant community, while this fiend
escapes and his victims character
forever ruined.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

Hon. l. Davis Clarke, member
elect to the Legislature from Trappe,
Talbot county, and one of the veal
thiest and most enterprising bust
ness men of Talbot, is hopelessly
i'll from q malignant cancer, and
will never be able to take his seat
with the rest of the delegation. Mr..
Clarke is we'll known in Annapo lis,
having served his county in the
State Senate some years ago.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

SOME Democrats are worried and
profess to believe that the Presi-
dents message will cause split in
the party. 1t may do so, but not
half as wide split as it will cause
in the Republican party if Brother
Blaine shall be nominated next
year. There are more Republicans
who are in favor of tariff reduction
and reform than there are Demo
Gratis who believe in the doctrine of
protection.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
IN the subscriber has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Anne Arundel county.
in Maryland, letters of administration
cum testamento annexo on the per
sonal estate of WILSON HOWARD late
of Anne Arundel county deceased. All
persons having claims against the said de-
ceased are hereby warned 10 exhibit the
same, with the vouchers thereof, legally
authenticated TO the subscriber, on or
before the
18th Day Of June, 1888.
They may otherwise. by law, be exclu-
ded from all benefit of the said estate. All
persons indebted to said estate are reques-
ted TO make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day of
December, 1887
JAMES r. BRASHEARS, Admr. c. t a.
- Il Annapolis, I'd.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

Mr.. EUGENE HIGGINS, the much
abused appointing Clerk of the
Treasury Department, rendered his
resignation to Secretary Fairchild,
yesterday, to take effect on the 18th
of January, 1883. In his letter of
acceptance to Dir. Higgins, the
Secretary says 1T is just to add
that ron have performed your duties
well and faithfully since you have
been connected with the depart
ment.' This ought to make Gene
feel happy If it don't his enemies.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-12-20

TOTAL abstinence societies are
becoming popular in New York,
many of them having been organic
ed during the year. That method OF
temperance reform is far more ra-
tional than the other plan of politi-
cal prohibition. The man who dis
continues drink voluntarily, is con-
WINGED o good deal better then the
fellow who quits drinking because
he can't get whisky.